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Hey, you're listening to the partial examine life episode 210 Part 2.

We have been discussing France, France, and Black Skin, White Masks.

We got into Chapter 5.

The fact of Blackness.

So, a lot of you taught this.

We are getting stuck here on all this existentialist lingo.

Do you just skip over that when you're teaching it?

What is the point of this chapter as far as you're concerned here?

What France Fanon is getting at here is he's trying to construct what it means to be Black.

And so that's the reason why in my translation, I don't know what Dylan has going on over there,

but in my translation, it's called the fact of Blackness.

And the reason why is because in a nutshell, what he's up to is he's trying to imply here

that the idea outside of racial discourse, the terms, Black and White possess no meaning.

And what I do is I start off by just kind of looking at the text itself directly and just

kind of walking them through the text because it's a very dense text to kind of read through

it, particularly if you're not accustomed to reading philosophy.

Fanon argues that the social absorption of Black as a negative term has led to the association

of Blackness with negativity.

And so as a result of that, people who are of African descent, or these who's calling

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